Ruinous deviation. The harshness - and sometimes the indignation - with regard to the behaviour of a large number of banks is not a fixation on the part of this column (see EUROPE 10816). It's quite the opposite in fact - everything points to this reaction being widespread across European public opinion. Of course, banks are crucial - unless we want to return to the situation of years gone by when families hid their savings under a mattress - and bankers make savings profitable to the...